Kansas Statutes 39-789. Persons unable to give consent for transfers eligible for assistance under act; court order of maintenance, conservatorship or property and income division required
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Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 39-789
- Assistance: includes such items or functions as the giving or providing of money, food assistance, food, clothing, shelter, medicine or other materials, the giving of any service, including instructive or scientific. See Kansas Statutes 39-702
- Disabled person: includes incapacitated persons and incompetent persons as defined herein. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
- Property: includes personal and real property. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
Assistance shall not be withheld from any institutionalized person or any person seeking home and community based services who would otherwise qualify for assistance under this act but who, by reason of being a disabled person as defined by Kan. Stat. Ann. § 77-201, and amendments thereto, is unable to give the consent prerequisite to the property and income transfers described in this act, provided that the spouse of the individual seeking assistance seeks a court order of maintenance, an order of conservatorship or of property and income division pursuant to this act within one year from the beginning of the first benefit period.